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TIL of Ewa Wiśnierska, a German paraglider that survived lightning, pounding hail, -40°C temperatures and oxygen deprivation after a storm system sucked her to an altitude higher than Mount Everest.

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16vgO TIL: The ‘Atoms For Peace’ program, intended to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear power, led to multiple countries developing nuclear weapons
69gp8 TIL Billie Eilish became the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award when she won Best Original Song for the theme to the James Bond film "No Time To Die"
P1JdZ TIL about McNamara's Morons and Project 100,000. Very low IQ and disabled men recruited and used as cannon fodder in Vietnam. They died at three times the rate of other soldiers. Over 350,000 men involved.
dgdK TIL Elaborate fake reports of shootings, explosions and outbreaks in America have been propagated by a secretive group in St. Petersburg called the Internet Research Agency
NJRM TIL that Kazakhstan is the country that export the most Uranium in the World